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Surface Warfare Officer's Department Head Guide by Frederick W Kacher
£35.15The at-sea department head is among the most challenging surface navy assignments. Prospective and serving department heads will find this collection of best practices and helpful advice invaluable in preparing for these demanding roles. Offering an... -
The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual by National Maritime Museum
RRP: £9.99£5.92Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the... -
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War by Peter Wetzler 9781350120815
RRP: £100.00£55.96Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often... -
Iron Fist from the Sea: South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988 by Lt. Col. Douw Steyn 9781909982284
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982284Author Lt. Col. Douw SteynFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Black Watch: Fighting in the Frontline 1899-2006 by Victoria Schofield
RRP: £15.00£11.36The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch, whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world. Formed into a regiment in 1739 and named for the dark tartan of its soldiers' kilts, The Black Watch... -
The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715 : Volume 3: 1685-1697 Campaigns, the Line Cavalry, Dragoons and the Irish Wild Geese by Rene Chartrand 9781913118853
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118853Author Rene ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Skorzeny's Special Missions: The Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando by Otto Skorzeny 9781805000143
RRP: £14.99£10.95Otto Skorzeny, Germanys top commando in the Second World War, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure and here he tells the full story. Skorzeny quickly proved... -
Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain Chris Goss 9781526754219
RRP: £25.00£17.62The term 'fighter ace' grew in prominence with the introduction and development of aerial combat in the First World War. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an 'ace' has varied but is usually considered to be five or... -
46 Miles: A Journey of Repatriation and Humbling Respect by Jarra Brown 9781908336828
RRP: £14.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908336828Author Jarra BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Menin HousePublisher Tommies Guides -
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance by Malcolm Edward Tudor 9781781553398
RRP: £20.00£15.04Here is the remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in Second World War Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians,... -
The British Empire and the Second World War by Ashley Jackson 9781852854171
£67.77In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British... -
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
RRP: £19.00£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495653Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Defending Bedfordshire: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present by Mike Osborne
RRP: £20.00£15.44Over the centuries, proximity to major routes---the Great North Road, the Icknield Way, and Watling Street---has made Bedfordshire strategically important. Iron Age hillforts occupied significant locations, and castles consolidated Norman control after... -
F9F Panther Units of the Korean War Warren Thompson (Author) 9781782003502
RRP: £16.99£14.10In 1948 the USAF, Marine Corps and US Navy were concentrating on converting over to an all-jet force. When the Korean War started in June 1950, the USAF had built up a sizable jet force in the Far East, while the US Navy was in the early stages of... -
George Cross Heroes Michael Ashcroft 9780755360840
RRP: £16.99£11.54In a broadcast to the nation in September 1940 King George VI announced the institution of the George Cross - a civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross awarded to recognize the many acts of supreme gallantry being performed outside of the battlefield... -
British and Empire Campaign Medals: 1793 to 1902: V. 1 by Stephen Philip Perkins 9780948964640
RRP: £6.95£5.10This is a price-guide reference book containing up-to-date values, and lots of historical information on all campaign medals and related items awarded to British and their colonial and local allies from 1793 to 1902. Every significant campaign is... -
Special Ops Heroes by Michael Ashcroft 9781472223951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.87Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of its kind in the world. The action-packed stories span some sixty years from the exploits of the newly-formed SAS... -
Ridolfo Capoferro's The Art and Practice of Fencing: A Practical Translation for the Modern Swordsman by Tom Leoni
RRP: £18.50£17.48In the 1600s, the elegant and deadly Italian rapier was the choice sword of duelists, officers, gentlemen and noblemen: to master the rapier was to be a feared martial artist and a paragon in single combat. Among the original treatises on the use of... -
Meopham Changing Places by Meopham Historical Society 9781781551257
RRP: £14.99£11.55Meopham Changing Places is a collection of old photographs of the village of Meopham in Kent, with historical comment, accompanied by matching contemporary photographs of the same sites and buildings. This book will take its place in the Changing Places... -
Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins by Douglas Boyd 9780750989367
RRP: £10.99£8.25After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his... -
Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy: The German II Parachute Corps in the Battle for France, 1944 by Gilberto Vilahermosa 9781848327719
RRP: £25.00£22.51In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German... -
Hitler Strikes North: The Nazi Invasion of Norway & Denmark, April 9, 1940 by Jack Greene
RRP: £16.99£12.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he... -
Fontenoy 1745: Cumberland's bloody defeat by Michael McNally
RRP: £16.99£14.10A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe in 1740, with France, Spain and Prussia on one side, and Britain, Habsburg Austria and the Dutch Republic on the other. While fighting occurred across... -
An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields by Adrian Greaves 9781399040686
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without... -
Nazi Rule and the Soviet Offensive in Eastern Germany, 1944-1945: The Darkest Hour by Alastair Noble 9781845192860
RRP: £34.95£32.09This is a groundbreaking English-language examination of the final period of Nazi rule in Germany's eastern provinces at the end of the Second World War. It outlines the wartime role of this region and assesses the impact of Nazi 'popular mobilisation'... -
The Dying Days of the Third Reich: German Accounts from World War II by Geoffrey Brooks 9780750966979
RRP: £20.00£15.04It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speaking audience. This is hardly surprising given that interest in these important documents has only recently... -
Beyond Iraq: The Future Of World Order by Amitav Acharya 9789814324809
RRP: £65.00£56.57How does the Iraq War affect the future world order? What kinds of problems has this war brought about, and what is needed to remedy these problems, so as to reconstruct an order in Iraq and beyond? The present volume is a collection of essays exploring... -
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS Vol 1: On the Eastern Front: April 1943 to July 1944 by Michael James Melnyk 9781781555286
RRP: £40.00£30.80The first volume of a two part set on the history of the Galician Division is based on over 25 years research by accomplished historian Michael James Melnyk who has sourced additional new and hitherto unseen original material on all aspects of the... -
War in the West Indies: The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660 by Paul Sutton 9781913336639
RRP: £29.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336639Author Paul SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Brighton at War 1939-45 by Douglas d'Enno
RRP: £16.99£12.68Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government... -
Honours, Decorations and Medals to the Royal Corps of Signals for Gallantry & Distinguished Service 1920-2020 by Nick Metcalfe 9781916264311
£41.27In every year since the formation of The Royal Corps of Signals in 1920, its officers and soldiers have been formally recognised for their gallantry and distinguished services on operations across the globe and their vital contribution to the wider tasks... -
The Greatest Sacrifice: Fallen Heroes of the Northern Union by Jane Roberts 9780995586161
RRP: £14.99£14.34They were among the sporting elite of 1914 - the stars of the Northern Union - idolised by thousands of enthusiastic men, women and children up and down the land. Yet despite their heroic status in what was soon to become known as rugby league, these... -
The Caring General: The military life and letters of Major General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise KCMG, CB, MVO 1864-1927 by James Barker-McCardle 9781804514894
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514894Author James Barker-McCardleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Darkest Hour, Volume 1: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean by Michal A Piegzik
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070616Author Michal A PiegzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Northern 'Q': The History of Royal Air Force, Leuchars by Ian Smith Watson 9781781556092
RRP: £18.99£13.61Northern 'Q': The History of Royal Air Force, Leuchars takes its title from the long standing primary role as one of the oldest airfields in the UK. Leuchars began its links with military aviation as far back as 1911 with the arrival of the Royal... -
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German PanzerjaGer on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943 by Christine Alexander
RRP: £14.99£12.96This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before. Hans Roth was... -
Operation Aleppo: Russia's War in Syrua: 2018 by Tim Ripley 9780992945824
RRP: £14.00£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992945824Author Tim RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Telic-Herrick PublicatinsPublisher Telic-Herrick Publicatins -
My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War by Nick van der Bijl
RRP: £10.99£7.25'On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. "Don't be so bloody silly," I replied, "get into the boat."' My Friends, The Enemy recounts the Falklands War from the viewpoint of the only Intelligence Corps in HQ 3... -
The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John by John Carr 9781399024822
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.